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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII MS. AUTHORITIES FOR THE TEXT OF THE CHIEF CLASSICAL WRITERS AESCHINES (389-314 B.c). Speeches: (1) KaTa Ttfiapxov. (2) Yltpi Trji TlapaTrptcrfitlw;. (3) KaTa K.TrjwvTo<;. (4) Nine letters. MSS. numerous and late. The text is corrupt but the corruptions are earlier than the Byzantine age, since many occur in early Egyptian fragments, e.g. Or. 3. § 181 'a/motosi/s S' 6 StK6poi (458), TlpofjLrjOtvs (before 466), EiyitwSts (458), 'Eirra hi &rj/3as (467), 'wtists (after 461). The chief authority is M=Mediceus siue Laurentianus 32. 9, 11th cent. (=L in Sophocles), facsimile by E. Rostagno 1896. It has three lacunae, viz. in Agam. 311-1066, 1160-1673 (where the loss is supplied by later MSS. especially Fl. = Florentinus 31. 8 a paper MS. of 14th cent.), and in the prologue to Choeph., where the loss cannot be repaired since the only other MS. (viz. the Guelferbytanus) which contains the play is a copy of M, made in the 15th cent. It has been held that all later MSS. are descended from M but (1) Septem 195 is found in the late MSS. and is absent in M, and (2) the late MSS. preserve many good readings which are corrupted in M. It is a...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230306412
- ISBN 13 9781230306414
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages130
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